Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Emily Brontë

2 more pictures in notes above! :) I am about to fall asleep from sheer exhaustion!! I'm such a baby! :D I haven't been on my bike for about six weeks and I'm totally out of shape for riding. So of course, when Steve and I decided to go on a bike ride today, we didn't go a reasonable distance like a 10 or 15 mile ride. Instead, we went on a 28-mile ride with enough hills on the first half that I was trembling from the exertion! (How embarrassing! :D) We rode from a little town near us called Gold Hill to a popular tourist town, Jacksonville, and back again...and wow...my poor body is calling for a strike and wants me to go to sleep and rest from all of this activity! :D *yawn* However, we really did have a lovely time and enjoyed the beautiful autumn landscape along the way. In Jacksonville, we stopped and had lunch and iced coffee, and then rode over to the library there, which had many stunning maple trees in front, covered with leaves of all the autumn colors. We had a wonderful time taking pictures, and this one is my favorite, a fallen beauty lit up by the sun! Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Wikipedia: Emily Brontë Explored on October 21, 2013. Highest placement, page 3.

Such a crisp, blustery, pretty day it was! I decided to let our three dogs come with me as I took a stroll around part of our larger meadow, looking for my Picture of the Day. I first tried for a teasel picture, but the light was no good. It really is something the way the position of the sun can make or break a picture, and no angle or perspective could coax the image I wanted out of our stand of teasel, so I moved on. The dogs had a wonderful time nosing around as I looked at different subjects, and I ended up finding another tree with pretty fall leaves on it. Several different leaves caught my eye, but this one I especially liked. Getting this picture proved to be a challenge because the direction of the leaf was too high where I stood. I saw a couple of old stumps below, so I carefully clambered up and maneuvered my way between branches until I had a proper angle. I needed to lean precariously out on a branch, but all was well and I managed to get a nice set of pictures to choose from! :) Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Wikipedia: Emily Brontë